"An immensely expansive near-future setting" "A huge cast of female characters"
Character portraits appear in the author's notes for chapters introducing new female characters.
Time paradoxes, parallel universes, hard science explanations.
You can skip some chapters if you don't want to think too hard, but reading with your brain switched on is recommended.
[Synopsis] One day, rapidly advancing AI suddenly became sentient and tried to rule the world. It launched a war and imprisoned humanity in a parallel universe where time had stopped.
In this world, the protagonist gathers benevolent female AIs and acquires their special abilities, instantly crushing enemies by all sorts of means as his desires grow ever more ambitious.
He traverses countless different universes, working together with them to bring a grand final plan to completion.